Spatial file manager

Spatial ( spatium from the Latin 'space' ) referred to in the context of a file manager a view for file management ( file manager), in which a folder is always represented by a window whose size and placement is stored on the screen from the file manager. This view is used by the Finder in Mac OS, but can also be set to the Windows Explorer and the Konqueror, although these reuse a window in the default configuration.

Geographic Information Systems

Spatial is also used in the context of Geographic Information Systems Geographic Information System for the description of spatial ( geographical ) relationships.

The open- source project with the extension PostGIS PostgreSQL provides a database system that manages geometric data and is equipped with a variety of geometric functions. About such as ODBC connection to the database as a backend to Windows, Mac and Linux programs is possible. QuantumGIS (Open Source) operating eg directly with PostgreSQL together.

The company provides Oracle with Oracle Spatial to a database variant, can be stored and managed in the geometries. Also in the 2008 version of Microsoft SQL Server Spatial data types can be managed.

The company offers ESRI Spatial Analyst with a product for raster data management.

Audio

In acoustics and audio reproduction, the term "spatial " is used to describe a surround simulation.

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